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"Don't eat beef for the time being."

Albert stared at the evening news playing on the television, frowning slightly as he spoke to Grandpa Luke, who was sitting opposite him reading the newspaper and teasing the cat.

"We haven't eaten beef in a long time. No one dares to eat it now."

Sansa placed the sliced fruit platter on the table and watched the news. The anchor was going to great lengths to report on mad cow disease.

Since mad cow disease had broken out in England in May, the government still had not found its cause, and there were signs that it might spread to other countries.

"They must have found the cause. They just don't dare tell the truth. The cattle feed probably had something wrong with it." Albert speared a piece of pineapple and put it into his mouth. It tasted quite good.

It was said that pineapples had once been very expensive in Europe, something only the wealthy could afford. That was why so many rich Europeans liked eating pineapples or Pineapple Drops.

Of course, they liked cooking pineapples as a dish.

At Albert's strong suggestion, The Anderson Family had changed the way they ate pineapples. They no longer cooked them as a dish, instead cutting them into chunks and soaking them in salt water for over half an hour before taking them out to eat as fruit. That got rid of the sour, astringent taste.

"Feed?" Luke was very surprised. He did not understand why Albert would say that. Did he know something?

But... what could Albert possibly know? He spent most of his time in the wizarding world now.

"Cannibalism."

Albert remembered that the cause of mad cow disease was animals eating their own kind. "I remember seeing something about it somewhere. Supposedly, natives